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Diora ZiyaevaSenior Managing Associate

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Diora Ziyaeva is a member of the Litigation and International Arbitration practice groups.

Diora focuses her practice on investor-state arbitration, on commercial arbitration and on issues and disputes relating to public international law, as well as corporate law with an emphasis on the oil and gas sector. She has experience litigating complex cases and has been involved in several important proceedings under the rules of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), including proceedings relating to the energy sector and involving states and state-owned entities.

Diora has been actively involved with implementation of HIV-AIDS and drug awareness seminars in various institutions and locations in Uzbekistan. She has also provided extensive pro bono representation at the Civil Law Clinic in Uzbekistan and led a community service initiative in orphanages and disabled children's homes. She is fluent in Uzbek, Russian, and German.

Diora is also an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.

Experience

Representing a Canadian mining company in an ICSID arbitration against the State of Colombia based upon violations of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Representing the State of Papua New Guinea in an arbitration brought under the ICSID Rules over a dispute regarding taxes on crude oil production.

Representing a UK based client against the State of Poland under the UK-Poland Bilateral Investment Treaty for the expropriation of a potash mining project.

Represented a North African State and large public interest company under the International Chamber of Commerce Rules of Arbitration.

Representing a US investor against the State of Egypt under the US-Egypt Bilateral Investment Treaty regarding the expropriation of the investor’s assets in the cotton industry.

Represented US client in LCIA arbitration against foreign airline company to recover client's investments, obtained award for full amounts sought.

Represented a European bank in an ongoing suit brought in Pennsylvania state court seeking payment of more than $200 million in connection with the construction development.

Representing commercial aviation services company in connection with the breach of an agreement under English law in ICC arbitration.

Represented a construction company in LCIA matter involving termination of a Middle Eastern joint venture with over US$300 million in dispute.

Represented a Hong Kong company in AAA arbitration and litigation in US federal court in defense of claims in excess of a million based upon breach of contract.

Represented an Albanian oil refinery in consolidated ICC arbitration concerning the disappearance of oil valued at more than US$26 million.

Represented a Central Asian state and state enterprises in ICSID arbitrations brought by Turkish companies under a bilateral investment treaty.

Represented a South American state in ICSID arbitrations against petroleum companies under a bilateral investment treaty.

Author, “Enforcing Awards Set Aside at the Seat: the United States Perspective,” Chapter in “60 Years of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: Key Issues and Future Challenges” Compilation of articles from the Seville Conference on the NYC, Wolters Kluwer pub. (forthcoming October 2018)

Co-author, “Turkmenistan Chapter” in Law and Practice of International Arbitration in the CIS Region (ed. Kaj Hober & Yarik Kryvoi). Kluwer Law International, The Netherlands (September 2017)

Co-author, “Managing Risk in International Arbitration: Third Party Funding Developments in Asia.” The Blog of The CPR Institute, New York, NY (August 2017)

Co-author, “State liability to foreign investors in the renewable energy sector: Eiser v Spain and its implications.” The International Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (September 2017)

Co-author, “Legal Trends and Developments of International Arbitration in South Africa.” Transnational Dispute Management, the Netherlands (2016)

Author, "Arbitral Tribunals Tend to Pay Lip Service to the Chorzów Factory Full Reparation Principle, Disregarding the Context and Full Implication of the Dictum," Journal of Damages in International Arbitration (August 2015)

Moderator, ICC Young Arbitrators Forum: Settlement in International Arbitration, New York City, NY, October 2016

Speaker, “Introduction to International Arbitration,” Series of Lectures for an official delegation of judges and legal practitioners from the Afghanistan Center for Dispute Resolution, Kuwait City, Kuwait, October 2016

Speaker, "Interim Measures in Investment Arbitration: Irreparable Harm Standard," Kobe University Summer School of Asian Law and Dispute Management, Kobe, Japan, August 2015

Speaker, "Investment Arbitration in Central Asia," Kobe University Summer School of Asian Law and Dispute Management, Kobe, Japan, August 2015

Speaker, “Lost on the way to Chorzów: Have arbitrators just been paying lip service to the PCIJ’s seminal case in their damages analyses?” Juris’ 9th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Washington, DC, February 26, 2015

Speaker, “Expropriation in International Arbitration,” International Law Institute’s training program on International Investment Agreements and Investor State Arbitration, Washington, DC, December 4, 2014

Lecturer, “Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in the US Courts,” University of Messina, Italy, October 14, 2014

Speaker, “Consent, Investment and Investor in Investor State Arbitration” and “Damages and Other Remedies in International Investment Arbitration,” International Law Institute’s Seminars, Washington, DC, December 2-6, 2013

Prior and Present Employment

Diora came to Dentons after spending six years as an international arbitrations associate at another notable firm in New York. She also worked as a research analyst with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, focusing on Eurasian economic and energy policy issues. In Uzbekistan, as part of her undergraduate legal studies, she interned with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she assisted international investors in developing new commercial opportunities. In addition to that, Diora served as a legal clerk for the Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan and as a legal associate at the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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